Category: Decision Making

Sunken Costs, Loss Aversion and Human Nature »

What are Sunken Costs and the principle of Loss Aversion?
A number of years ago when I was in my first year of business school, I was introduced to the concept of ‘sunken costs’.  For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it refers to money that is gone, and is essentially unrecoverable.  For example, [...]